Visa Tap brings the security and ease of contactless payments to mobile experiences

Visa Tap technology enhances cardholder convenience by enabling card activation, adding cards to digital wallets or apps, confirming high-value transactions and sending or receiving money with friends, all with a tap. It offers a more seamless user experience with higher authorization rates and reduced fraud.

Unlock a new world of cardholder convenience with a tap

Tap to pay revolutionized contactless payments by letting cardholders tap their cards instead of inserting or swiping. Tap to Phone lets merchants accept payments on their smartphones with no additional hardware required. Now Visa Tap gives cardholders even more ways to use their cards with just the tap of their card to their phone, or someone else's.

Tap to Add Card

Issuers, digital wallet providers, merchants, acquirer partners and solution providers can help cardholders add their Visa cards to digital wallets or merchant apps.

Tap to Confirm

Issuers, merchants, acquirer partners and solution providers can enable seamless security step-ups to confirm transactions and account updates.

Tap to P2P

Issuers and digital wallet providers can let Visa cardholders tap to send and receive money with friends and family quickly and easily using a participating digital wallet.

Tap to Activate

Issuers can make Visa card activation quick and easy for cardholders by letting them tap their participating phone using their issuer mobile app for secure card authentication.

Tap to Phone

Solution providers can help merchants and their acquirer partners accept contactless payments with no additional hardware required.

Tap to Phone turns smartphones into contactless point-of-sale devices

Merchants around the world, of any size, can securely accept contactless payments on the near-field enabled devices they already own by downloading an app, no hardware required.

Tap to Add Card lets cardholders add their card with a tap

Tap to Add Card helps Visa cardholders avoid the effort and errors of manual card entry by letting them simply tap to add their card to a participating digital wallet or merchant app.

Tap to P2P makes sending money to friends and family as simple as a tap

Tap to P2P lets Visa cardholders send and receive money with friends and family quickly and easily using a participating digital wallet. With the tap of a friend's card or phone to your cardholder’s phone the money is securely transferred in real-time* with Visa Direct.

*Actual funds availability depends on U.S. receiving financial institutions.

Tap to Confirm can help increase approval rates and reduce fraud

Tap to Confirm is a security step-up to confirm a cardholder is in possession of their card for things like high-value money transfers, updating account information or continuing with a merchant transaction. Resulting in higher approval rates and reduced fraud, all from a cardholder experience that's as simple as a tap.

Tap to Activate makes Visa card activation quick and easy. When a cardholder receives their new card, they just tap it to their participating phone using their issuer mobile app for secure card authentication and cryptogram validation.

Visa Tap benefits the entire ecosystem

Issuers

Increase card utility with Tap to Add Card, Tap to Confirm, Tap to P2P and Tap to Activate. Tap to Add Card and Tap to Confirm can also help improve authorization rates and reduce fraud.

Merchants

Give your customers a better payment experience and reduce cart abandonment with Tap to Phone, Tap to Add Card and Tap to Confirm.

Digital Wallet Providers

Give users a quick and secure way to add their cards and send or receive funds, while helping interoperability between digital wallets through Tap to Add Card and Tap to P2P.

Acquirers

Increase authorization rates and transaction volume while reducing fraud and providing a more seamless customer experience with Tap to Phone, Tap to Add Card and Tap to Confirm.

Solution Providers

Offer your clients new ways to reduce friction at checkout by delivering seamless and secure experiences for their customers with Tap to Phone, Tap to Add Card and Tap to Confirm.

Consumers

Give your cardholders and customers simple, fast and secure mobile experiences with Tap to Phone, Tap to Add Card, Tap to Confirm, Tap to P2P and Tap to Activate.

CASE STUDY Visa and Apple Pay deliver secure, seamless Tap to Add Card provisioning

Visa and Apple Pay bring Tap to Add Card to issuers at scale, enabling cardholders to add Visa cards in seconds with a tap - improving approval rates and reducing fraud.

NEWS Samsung becomes the first partner to deploy Visa Tap to P2P

With Visa Tap and Visa Direct, Samsung Wallet users can send money to friends' and family's bank accounts in minutes, even if they use other digital wallets, devices or cards.